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New Hampton, Oct. 21, 1867 Dear Friends at Home, I have received another letter from Mr. Butler, dated Rosa, Oct. 4 & 5 and as I know you will be interested in all he writes about his visit to our friends in Wales I will copy what he says about that. Writing to us he says, "You will like to get a letter from Rosa, ma's birthplace, also grandma Everett's. It is a large three story stone house, with several barns, and outbuildings, garden, fields and pastures enclosed with pretty green hedges. Mr. Roberts has a good farm under excellent cultivation, but has to pay about $1,000 a year rent, & $100 a year taxes. His eldest daughter is married and lives 1 1/2 miles from here. They have a little boy, Johny, a year old. The younger daughter is soon to be

There is also writing up the left side of the page and over the address and greeting at the top of the page. I assume this continues from the end of the letter, but will transcribe it here us & shall hope to write soon again I must close now With much love to all. Hope Mary will have a good time in New York. Tell her to write to us. I shall write to Cynthia soon in answer to her kind letter. 

Good By, Elisabeth